HP Auto Port Aggregation Administrator's Guide for HP-UX 11i v1 and 11i v2 September 2008

8. Use the lanapplyconf command to build the failover group, and check it with the lanscan
-q and netstat -in commands:
# lanapplyconf
Reading ASCII file /etc/lanmon/lanconfig.ascii
Creating Fail-Over Group lan900
# lanscan -q
4
0
3
900 1 2
901
902
903
904
# netstat -in
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Opkts
lan0 1500 191.1.1.0 191.1.1.1 1794 1173
lo0 4136 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 390 390
lan900 1500 192.1.1.0 192.1.1.153 0 0
NOTE: If lanapplyconf encounters an invalid failover group, it stops reading the /etc/
lanmon/lanconfig.ascii file. Any failover groups created prior to this error are
unaffected.
9. The failover group is now operational. A reboot will restart the failover group as long as
the /etc/lanmon/lanconfig.ascii file is intact and the port or link aggregation has
an IP address in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf that matches the failover group's Stationary
IP entry in /etc/lanmon/lanconfig.ascii.
If lan1 fails, lan2 becomes the active port. Similarly, if the failover group consists of two link
aggregates, failover from the link aggregate to the standby link aggregate occurs only when all
ports in the link aggregate failed. However, the examples in the next section show how proactive
failover gives you greater control of the failover.
Proactive Failover Examples
For the May 2005 and later releases of HP APA for HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11.20) and PHNE_33116
(B.11.11.17) patch release, proactive failover relies on measuring and calculating efficiency. The
efficiency of a link aggregate or individual port in a failover group is affected by the following:
• The number of ports in each member of the failover group
• The effective throughput of the switch or router to which the failover group members are
connected
The following examples show how each affects the proactive failover operation.
Example 1
You want to configure a failover group (lan902) for proactive failover. You decide that failover
group consists of two link aggregates: lan900 and lan901. The lan900 aggregate consists of
ports 1, 2, and 3; the lan901 aggregate consists of ports 4 and 5. Ports 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 have speeds
of 100 Mb/s. In addition, you want the link aggregate with the most operational ports at any
point in time to be the active link in the failover group.
NOTE: You can apply the methodology in this example to failover groups consisting of any
number of link aggregates and ports.
To configure the failover group for proactive failover, do the following:
1. Determine network efficiency.
In this example, you assign both lan900 and lan901 a cost of 1.
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